A bearing seizing suddenly…thanks, you gave me a new anxiety.
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I flailed myself pretty hard with my Hydrogen Crash last Wednesday when I developed a tail on a bind that i didn’t realize had tightly wrapped itself around the string when I hit a jade whip. Next throw I ended up hitting myself directly on my wrist bone (radius? Ulna?) because the tail kept the yoyo from deploying fully.
Also my ceiling may or may not be kinda scuffed pretty badly from getting to aggressive from pops and hops and getting hit by yoyos
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Yeahhh its no fun, i keep spare bearings and a bearing changing tool in my bag at all times. Still doesnt stop it from dusting your knuckles the first time though 
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My first metal a long time ago was a Pocket Pros Zombie by Razor (yes, that same Razor that terrorized our shins and ankles as kids with their scooters.) Well as it turns out, their yo-yos are just as deadly. I have will forever have a scar above my eye where it snagged and came back to hit me in the face lol. That is the one and only time where I have actually been injured by a yoyo (knock on wood)
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That’s got to have haunted you for a while
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decided to make a topyo patronus my edc without knowing that using bimetals outside was a terrible idea
needless to say i completely destroyed it and had to throw it away
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My yo-yo journey has been fairly unblemished.
Yah I wasted too much time on BST hoping for illusive throws to appear (over that!)
Made a couple regretted purchases lured by price, urgency, hype (I’ve learned restraint)
Using free time for screen time instead of throw time (working on it)
All which could have been so much more severe, no permanent blemishes with the following exception.
Yo-Yo to kitchen tile… Ouch that’s gonna leave a mark!
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Gave myself a gnarly black eye missing a zontal eli hop 
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Dang, that’s a good chunk of finger
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I’d give you 4 1/2 out of 5 stars/fingers for that one! Ouch!
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Cleaning my bearing with acetone.
Put it on a chopstick to spin, give it a good spin and acetone straight in my eye.
I guess not a throw itself, but closely related lol
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I dropped a yoyo and it rolled away straight over a dog turd
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Summits and Chiefs are considered classics 
My worst fail would either have to be the time I fixed a bearing knot then tried snap-starting my Chief only to realize I didn’t put the string back on as I watched it tumble down the pavement, or the time I got scammed out of a custom yoyo case and 4 yoyos on Valentine’s Day lol
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I was using my Butterfly, and hit it against another yoyo in my pocket, cracked the butterfly and took out a significant chunk of plastic.
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Doing chores with a Wildwood Gnomad in my pocket.
Prior to Fixed Axel February, I always had a YYF Confusion in my side pocket. It just became habit. Key, Wallet, Yoyo… Good to go.
I was bringing hay bales (85 Pounds) from the Barn to the yard to feed our animals. When I finished, I went to grab the yoyo and only got a half.
The yoyo went back to Mr. Eric for repairs. So it will play again.
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